Scottish slang for getting drunk is incredibly colorful, with popular terms including pished, blootered, steamin', fu (full), stoatin', and miraculous, often used in varying degrees to describe intoxication, from slightly tipsy to completely hammered. Other common phrases are "oot yer tree" (out of it), "bladdered," or "hammered".
Blattered, blootered, blotto, mingin, fu' (as in full), rat arsed, trollied, smashed, puggled, steamin', steam boats, pie-eyed, wrecked, fraggled (as much use as a muppet), incapacitated, tired and emotional, hammered, stoshish, burst (as in like a burst ball), legless.
Fou has become probably the best known Scots word for intoxicated.
The traditional Scottish Gaelic toast when raising a glass to say 'cheers' is Slàinte mhath which is pronounced slan-ge-var. ... People say 'Slange' or 'Slange Var' when they clink their glasses; but ask the average Scot for the Gaelic spelling, a...
“Och aye the noo!”
This is one of those Scottish phrases that can be heard in countless parodies aimed at poking fun at the Scots' dialect and accent. Its direct English translation is “Oh yes, just now”. And, while some Scots may chuckle along with you, it is considered quite offensive by others.
and chiefly Scottish) 1. The scrotum. 2. An ignorant, obnoxious, or otherwise debatable person.
You might be feeling like you "cannae be bothered" this week... and every Scot knows that this is the polite way of putting it. "Cannae" is really just a contraction of "cannot". You will find this word spelled in a variety of other ways including canna, cannie, and canny. Cannae shov yer Grannie aff the bus.
Whit's fur ye'll no go past ye – Whatever is meant to happen will happen. Ma heid's mince – My head is mince, meaning I'm a bit confused. Yer oot yer face! – You're extremely intoxicated from the effects of alcohol.
"They talk of my drinking, but never of my thirst" -- Scottish proverb A toast on Robert Burns Day - slàinte mhath to all you parched lassies and lads!
The name whisky comes from the Scottish Gaelic word 'uisge' (pronounced ish-ka), or more fully 'uisge beatha', water of life.
wee barra – Literally “Small fair haired child”. Used as a term of endearment (generally boys)
Slang Terms Teens Use for Drinking and Getting Drunk
Turnt. Wasted. Hammered. Smashed. Sloshed.
The Dictionary of the Scots Language (www.dsl.ac.uk) defines laldie as follows: “A thrashing, a punishment, a drubbing, generally in phrases to get or gie laldie also figurative of any vigorous or energetic action.” Although DSL sometimes uses rather quaint language – when was the last time we heard of someone getting ...
Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
JIGGER, n. 1. “An open vehicle for carrying trees from the forest” (Cai.
Scottish word of the week is tottie! This is used to describe something very small and tiny. It can be spelled a number of different ways including totie, toaty, or totty. Pronunciation: "toat-y"
In Scotland, people say “Slàinte Mhath” (pronounced Slanj-a-va) to mean “cheers” or “good health.” The phrase exists in both Scots and Irish Gaelic, differing only slightly in spelling. Scots Gaelic originated in northern Ireland and spread to Scotland in the 4th–5th centuries.
Scottish drinking slang varies from place to place, with the North-east of Scotland providing plenty of Doric terms for those “awa' wi' it” or “stoatin' aboot”. Other popular terms from the area include “half-cut”, “bleezin”, to be “pie-eyed” or even to be “sloshed”.
Take from this what you will, but 'dreich' has been voted the “most iconic” Scots word several times. In a sentence: “It's awfy dreich oot there the day.”
An archetypal example of an overt Scotticism is "Och aye the noo", which translates as "Oh yes, just now". This phrase is often used in parody by non-Scots and although the phrases "Och aye" and "the noo" are in common use by Scots separately, they are rarely used together.
bampot (plural bampots) (Scotland, slang, derogatory) An idiot; an objectionable and foolish person.
'Glaikit' – meaning foolish, thoughtless, or lacking in common sense. Often used humorously or affectionately to describe someone behaving in a silly, vacant or naive way. For example, you might hear someone say, "Dinnae be glaikit!" (Don't be foolish!).
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#10: “Ah dinnae ken.”
A Scottish slang phrase meaning, “I don't know.”